The gun control vote and Democrats' problem

A senior Senate Republican observed today on the anti gun legislation, "It's hard to say what [Sen. Harry] Reid will even bring up. He could opt for some watered down nothing burger, I suppose. Hard to say, [but] he's in a conundrum." That is because without cover of a GOP filibuster, which now seems unlikely, a whole bunch of vulnerable Senate Democrats will in fact have to take the votes that they dread and are certain to be used against them in 2014.